There’s an old, old saying, something about you can’t get anything done if the decisions have to be made by a committee. I’ve heard it lots of times, but apparently, it’s not so old that the
Founding Fathers ever heard it. Well, after all, they were a committee, weren’t they?
I don’t think the truth of that saying was ever more evident than with the current Congress. I think we can even narrow it down to the current House.
Did anybody REALLY expect the House Republicants would manage to approve a 2-month
extension of the income tax reduction? No, of course not. They have been so recalcitrant and stubborn, so afraid that Obama might get something done, that they have stonewalled everything, missed every deadline. Even now, when the Senate Republicants finally saw enough light to pass a 2-month moratorium on that tax hike, expecting to deal with it in more depth in January, the House Republicants and T NO! Partiers said ... no.
Their reason for saying no? In their opinion, passing a two-month moratorium doesn’t really do any good. They should be voting on nothing less than a full year’s agreement, and if the Senate would just come back to town and do that, then there’s time to get it done before the end of the year.
Really? They’ve let every other deadline roll by, deadlines that gave them months to work things out, but they’re going to pull a rabbit out of the hat this time? And we’re supposed to believe they’re going to do it in the 10 or 11 days that are left in the year?
They must think I was born yesterday.
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